Toy elevator.



H. G. MOSGHERROSGH.

TOY ELEVATOR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY2, 1912.

1,101,034, Patented June 23, 19M

HARRY G. MOSCHERROSCH, 0F APPLETON, WISCONSIN.

TOY ELEVATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1914.

Application filed July 2, 1912. Serial No. 707,396.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY G. Mosonnn- ROSCH,citizen of the United States, residing at Appleton, in the county ofOutagamie and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Toy Elevators, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in toys and theobject of my invention is to provide a toy elevator including a carwhich may be raised or lowered at will by the turning of a hand crank.

A further object of my invention is to provide a sounding device whichwill be operated continuously by the movement of the car. And a stillfurther object of my invention is to improve the construction andincrease the effectiveness of toys of the above described character.

With these and other objects in view, my invention will be more fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and thenspecifically pointed out in the claims which are attached to and form apart of this application.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the toy; Fig. 2 is acentral vertical section of the same, showing the operating mechanism;Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, looking in the directionof the arrow.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the samereference characters.

The preferred embodiment of my invention includes a base or casing 10,preferably rectangular in shape and formed of any suitable material suchas wood and closed at its upper end by a cover 11. Extending verticallyupward in parallel spaced relation from this base through the cover, arehollow cylindrical uprights 12 provided with longitudinally extendingslots 13 and connected at their upper ends by a cross bar 14. Mountedfor vertical movement between these uprights, is a car 15 including abody 16 having upwardly extended end walls 17, the upper end of whichare con nected by a brace 18. This car is mounted upon the uprights bymeans of eyes 19 extended laterally from the end walls and passedthrough the slots of the uprights and is held against swinging movementby a pin 20 carried by the lower portion of the body of the car andextending through the slot of one of the uprights.

The uprights within the base or casing 10 are connected by a bracemember 21 and journaled in suitable bearings formed in this brace memberand in the front wall of the casing, is a shaft 22, one end of whichextends in advance of the casing and is provided with a hand crank 23.Cords 24: and 25 are connected by their ends to the shaft and pass inopposite directions into the lower ends of the uprights over pulleys 26and 27 mounted in the lower portions of the uprights and then upwardlyand about pulleys 28 and 29 mounted in the upper ends of the uprightsfrom which the free ends of the cords extend downwardly and areconnected to the eyes 19 of the car. It will therefore be seen that uponthe turning of the shaft 22 by the hand crank, these cords will be woundor unwound to raise and lower the car upon the uprights.

The opposite end of the shaft extends through the brace 21 and keyedupon this extended end, is a gear 30 which meshes with a pinion 31carried upon a revolubly mounted stub shaft 32. Keyed upon this stubshaft, is a hammer wheel 33 including a body member 3 1 having radiallydirected arms 35, upon the free ends of which are ivoted hammers 36which, upon rotation of the hammer wheel, swing outwardly in position tostrike a gong 37 carried by the brace 17.

The turning of the shaft to raise and lower the car, as previouslydescribed, will act through the gear and pinion to rotate the hammerwheel at a high rate of speed and cause a practically continuous anduninterrupted sounding of the gong.

From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that I have provideda simple and effective form of toy elevator and one in which allmovement of the car is accompanied by the sounding of a signal.

This toy may be made of wood, tin or any other suitable material, aspreferred.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A toy including a base, hollow uprights extending vertically from thebase and provided with longitudinal slots, a car having eyes extendedthrough the slots and a pin extended through one slot to preventswinging of the car, pulleys mounted in the upper and lower ends of theuprights, a shaft mounted in the base, cables secured by one end to theshaft and passed about the pulleys and secured by their free ends to theeyes, said cables being housed in the uprights, means for rotating saidshaft, a signal device, and means operable by the rota tion of the shaftfor continuously sounding the signal.

2. A toy including a base, uprights, a car movable between the uprights,a shaft journaled in the base, means for rotating said shaft, meansco-acting between the shaft and car whereby the rotation of the shaftwill raise and lower the car, a gear mounted upon said shaft, a stubshaft, a pinion mounted upon the stub shaft and meshing with the firstmentioned gear, a gong mounted in the base, and a hammer wheel mountedupon the stub shaft in operative position with respect to the gong.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY G. MOSCHERROSGH.

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